Watermelon diet is very popular in the summer-autumn season. Its principle is to derive excess fluid from the body. In a hard version, only watermelons and pure drinking water are included in the diet, it is resolved 4-5 times a day. And only once every three days you can eat a Sukharik with bran. In addition to watermelons, rye bread, cereal, fruits and vegetables are allowed in the softer diet. And the watermelon is recommended only in the morning and at lunch.
Natalia Grishina Gastroenterologist, nutritionist:
- Watermelon diet can be recommended as one of the options for unloading days. For more than two days, it is harmful to health. Naturally, during this time you will not be able to get rid of fatty sediments and lose only water. Do not part with unloading days, otherwise you will provoke an increase in appetite. Ideally, repeating watermelon days is recommended no more than 4-5 days. With extreme caution to the consumption of watermelons, you need to treat people with renal failure, urolithiasis and diabetes. If there are kidney stones, then the watermelon diet can provoke their movement, which in turn can lead to renal coliks, blockage and even breaking urinary ducts. It is very dangerous, so before the start of the diet is required to consult the attending physician.
Natalia Grishin
Watermelons can be grown using nitrates. This is told about the large sizes of early watermelons. Therefore, choose the fruit of no more than ten kilograms. Children, elderly, patients with weakened health react to poisoning with diarrhea nitrates, vomiting, severe pain, or even temperature. In people with more or less strong health, nitrates accumulate, with time causing weakness, decrease in immunity, irritability and insomnia.
It is impossible to buy a cracked watermelon, because through a crack in the berry, pathogenic bacteria fall. Remember that this berry absorbs all harmful substances with which it comes into contacts, so there should be not only cracks on the watermelon, but also dents and darkens.
Salad with roasted watermelon
Ingredients: 8 watermelon slices with cut crosses and no seeds, olive oil, 5 h. Lyme juice, 120 g of feta cheese, mint, arugula, lathouse, cress, salad, salt, pepper, fried pumpkin seeds.
Cooking method: Pieces of watermelon with palm size to dry with a paper towel and put on a preheated grill. Fry watermelon on one side for 2 minutes. All the greens (except for mint) mix, salt, pour lime juice and olive oil. Green lay out on a flat dish, put the pieces of roasted watermelon on top and crush the feta. Salt a little and pour oil and lime juice. Decorate with pumpkin seeds or mint leaves.
Salad with roasted watermelon
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Watermelon lemonade
Ingredients: 1 Middle Watermelon, Orange or Cherry Juice, 1 liter of mineral water, Zestra 1 Orange (Lemon), Lemon Juice, Sugar.
Cooking method: Watermelon is pretty wash and dry. Puffed the flesh with a knife, remove all seeds. Sprinkle with sugar, mix well, continuing to grind it. Add two glasses of cherry nectar or orange juice, as well as lemon juice. Put the zest. Stir and replace the mixture for 40 minutes in the refrigerator. The resulting billet for the lemonade is poured over the glasses, diluting with gashed water to taste.
Watermelon lemonade
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Watermelon ice
Ingredients: Watermelon, if desired, other fruits are bananas or pineapples.
Cooking method: Watermelon cut, remove the flesh, removing bones. Slices of watermelon send to the freezer for several hours. Then the frozen watermelon is then crushed in a blender to a puree mass. Grind watermelon you need a few minutes to melted.